Daayid s



(No Model.)

D. s. EARHART.

CLOTHES PIN.

Patented Dec. 16

m ME 7/ WA 0 m, 2

UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

DAVID S. EARHART, OF RAVENSIVOOD, FLORIDA.

CLOTHES-PIN.

EQPESIPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,382, datedDecember 16, 1884-.

Application filed September 10, 1883. (No model.)

To (tit whom, it may concern Be it known that I, DAVID S. EARHART, ofRavenswood, county of Orange, State of Florida, have invented ordiscovered a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Pins; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, concise, and exactdescription thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings,making a part of this specification, in whichlike letters indicatinglike parts Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of aclothes-line with the clot-hes thereon, showing my improved clothes pinin use; Fig. 2, a similar view of the line, showing my clothes-pin inposition thereon when not in use; and Fig. 3, a detail view inperspective of the clothes-pin.

The present invention has relation to that class of clothes-pins adaptedto hold two separate pieces of fabric or two articles of clothing uponthe line, the pin being made double for this purpose and formed of woodpermanently connected to the line by a ring. It has also been common toform the single clothes pins of wire bent in the required shape.

It is the object of the invention to improve the construction of theclothes-pins heretofore in use; and it consists in the details ofconstruction, substantially as shown in the drawings, and hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents my improved clothes-pin, andB the clothesline, to which it is permanently connected, so as toprevent the possibility of its dropping from the line and becoming lost.

The clothes-pin is constructed in the following manner: I take a strandof wire of suitable length proportionate to the size of clothespindesired, and bendit near its center or midway of its ends horizontally,as shown at a, this horizontal portion forming the handle of the pin.The ends of the wire, after the horizontal portion has thus been formed,are

brought down and bent to form loops 6, which extend inwardly at anangle, as shown. The wire is now brought upward and its extremitiescoiled or twisted around the horizontal portion a, as shown at c, thisnot only serving as a means for securing the extremities of the wire,but greatly strengthening that part of the clothes-pin which forms thehandle, or the means for pressing the pin down over the clothes when onthe line. The loops I) serve to attach the pin A to the line B, thelatter passing through the loops, and therefore the pin cannot becomedetached except by being passed over the end of the line, although thepins are freely adjustable lengthwise along the line. The pins, when notin use, will naturally hang as shown in Fig. 2; but when brought intouse they are turned to the position shown in Fig. 1, and passed downupon the articles of clothing to be secured. The loops 1), being bentinwardly, as shown, admit the loops passing around the edges of thefabric or clothing, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, without which theclothes-pin would be ineffective for the purpose. v

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

A clothes-pin formed from a single piece or strand of wire bent near itscenter or midway of its ends horizontally to form a handle, and thencedownwardly to form two independent loops, both of which are bentinwardly at an angle, and the wire brought upward and its extremitiescoiled or twisted around the horizontal port-ion forming the handle,substantially as and for purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

DAVID S. EARHART. Witnesses W. C. NEARY, J. A. MILLER.

